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Do not pass go: the tangled roots of Monopoly

2015-06-24 12:54:41| Toys - Topix.net

The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury and the Scandal Behind the World's Favourite Board Game Mary Pilon Bloomsbury USA, 313pp, $27/A 20 My dad was born in 1924, five years before the great crash of 1929. One of the founding stories of my childhood was about his childhood: how, as a poor kid in New Haven, Connecticut, he really wanted a Monopoly set but couldn't dream of affording one - and so he made his own.

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